"Singing and Dance Film?" Everyone present was stunned and doubted whether they had heard it wrong.

You should know that this musical is not very invested in the period of time, so it is nothing to shoot for some wishes. Anyway, there is not much money, so you can afford to pay.

But this song and dance film is different. Although it cannot be compared with those big-invested commercial films, the song and dance film is already a serious movie after all, and a beautiful song and dance film can be invested in a lot of money.

The key is that this song and dance film is like a musical, and now there is basically no market, it is a niche film.

Song and dance films are films that consist of a large number of singing and dancing forms. Most of them are documented opera performances or adapted from operas. Most of them are singers who play the main roles.

It mainly relies on singing to portray characters and unfold plots. Early singing and dancing films were mostly stage art films with relaxed and beautiful and entertaining nature. Song and dancing films highlight artistic achievements in performance, singing, dancing and music, and the plot is mostly relatively simple.

After Warner Films produced "Forty-Two Street" in the 1920s, Western music and dance films were popular. In 1927, the first audio film "The King of Jazz" was released. Since it is a film adapted from a musical, it mainly focuses on singing and dancing.

The rise of musical and dance films was almost simultaneously born with audio films. "The King of Jazz" marked the birth of musical and dance films, but due to the lack of sound requirements, people regarded MGM's "The Melody of Broadway" in 1929 as the first real musical and dance film.

Song and dance films became popular in the 1930s and became a popular fashion in the 1930s and 1940s. As early as the "golden age" of song and dance films in the 1940s, MGM's dream kingdom turned music into a universal worldview and an audio-visual expression of an "attitude".

This attitude is essentially a belief that "the world is a wonderful and romantic place, which is permeated with the rhythm and elegance of music." This attitude has always existed since the earliest "Jazz Singer", but as a musical "style", it was only clear that the "style" of the musical films was "The Merge Song" and "The Song and Dance Film" integrated the plot and the musical dance. A series of classic musical films appeared, and the "Wilderness of Oz" that many people are familiar with, Wizard of Oz (1939), "Forty-Two Street", etc. The 1950s and 1960s reached glory, producing the classic "A American in Paris", "The Story of the West Side" and "The Voice of Music". It began to shrink in the 1970s.

The prototype of Chinese musical and dance films has been around for a long time, but the form is simple, without the luxurious lineup of Hollywood, nor the national characteristics of Brazilian musical and dance films. The development is not mature enough, and the number is small and the scale is not enough, so the audience naturally cannot understand Chinese musical and dance films.

"Singer Red Peony" was born in 1931. This is China's first audio film. Strictly speaking, it is a song record. In the 1930s and 1940s, the song record became a major form of Shanghai entertainment films.

For example, the first interlude film "Wild Grass and Flowers", "Looking for Brothers in Wanli" sung by Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan is fresh and touching; "Singing in the Midnight" directed by Ma Xu Weibang is adapted from the American Broadway opera "Phantom of the Opera", and set a record of 34 consecutive days of screening in Shanghai. Among them, the three interludes written by Tian Han, composed by Xian Xinghai, and sung by Jinshan are of great significance.

Although it cannot be considered a song and dance film in the strict sense, the charm of song and dance has begun to flash in the movie. The most famous of them is "The Angel of the Road".

In the 1950s and 1960s, colorful song and dance films were popular in Hong Kong, especially Shaw Brothers' "Flowers" and "Flaming and Beautiful". The luxurious song and dance scenes were spectacular, and they were classic works that focused on imitating Hollywood's magnificent style and were comparable to Hollywood song and dance films of the same period.

At that time, many movies produced by left-wing film companies could be regarded as musical and dance films, but they were in the Chinese drama style, such as Wang Laohu, starring Xia Meng, who robbed the bride.

The real fertile soil of singing and dancing films is in India. Although A San is not a thing, I have to say that A San is really awesome in singing and dancing.

That guy is indispensable in any movie, singing and dancing. Action movies can be played and danced, and Indians do listen to them and sing and dancing.

As the world's largest producer of song and dance movies, India has 3.6 billion viewers worldwide every year. In its market, Hollywood movies account for only 6%.

South Hollywood films centered on Mumbai have dedicated their unique Brazilian song and dance films to the world with the tradition of "no song and dance".

This is also the confidence that India calls its film base Bollywood.

From "My Love History" which was popular in China in the 1950s to the ever-lasting song and dance films in the 1980s, although they have experienced decades of vicissitudes, Indian movies are still singing and dancing, like dreams.

Qiao Feng has not seen many Indian songs and dances, and his favorite songs and dances are not those serious songs and dances, but a comedy, three fools make a big fuss in Bollywood. The few songs and dances there left a deep impression on Qiao Feng.

It was from that movie that Qiao Feng realized that the movies made by India, Ah San, could have such wonderful things. It turned out that the movies that were performed well could suddenly be so attractive.

But India is an exception. On the topic, singing and dancing films around the world have gradually declined since the 1970s.

In recent years, it has reached the point where anyone hits and dies. Some film companies and filmmakers in Hollywood want to reshape the glory of the prosperous singing and dancing era, but unfortunately, the market seems to have no recognition of singing and dancing films at once.

Regardless of the size of the investment, the final result will be a loss, and no one said that it can make a profit.

As a result, singing and dancing films have become a almost taboo term in Hollywood.

Whether it was Zhang Guorong of friends, Zhou Runfa, Zhong Chuhong of his own, Lin Qingxia, Ye Qianwen or Zhang Manyu who could only be considered to be known, they all looked at Qiao Feng in surprise, not knowing whether he was joking or really serious.

If it is serious, why would Qiao Feng prepare to shoot musical and dance films? Can't he see the current dilemma of musical and the pitiful recognition of the market?
Chapter completed!